Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Nevada

Welcome to the Nevada Roads task force of the U.S. Roads WikiProject! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing.

Scope
This task force concentrates on creating quality articles pertaining to roads and highways in Nevada. Articles within the scope of this task force include:
 * All State Routes (including former routes),
 * State-detail articles about Interstates and U.S. highways in Nevada,
 * signed county routes, and
 * other notable roads and highway-related topics (such as Summerlin Parkway).

Goals

 * Create an article for every state-maintained highway and significant roadway in Nevada.
 * Improve the quality of all articles in the project.

Lists

 * List of Interstate Highways in Nevada
 * List of U.S. Routes in Nevada
 * List of state routes in Nevada
 * List of state routes in Nevada prior to 1976
 * Nevada Scenic Byways

Categories

 * Category:Roads in Nevada
 * Category:Interstate Highways in Nevada
 * Category:Nevada Scenic Byways
 * Category:State highways in Nevada
 * Category:Former state highways in Nevada
 * Category:U.S. Highways in Nevada
 * Category:Former U.S. Highways in Nevada

Images

 * Images in the "Roads in Nevada" Commons category generally follow the category scheme used above.

Data

 * Wikidata page for Nevada road articles

Popular pages

 * The task force's Popular Pages report

Resources
The following is a short list of web references and links which may help in the creation and expansion of articles:
 * NDOT - State Maintained Highways: Descriptions & Maps (current year only)
 * Instead of raw links to this resource please use Template: NDOT SMBook. If/when Nevada DOT revamps their webpage using this template allows us to have one place to update the URL instead of hundreds of articles to update.


 * NDOT - Maps webpage, with links to current and historical maps
 * use Template:Cite NDOT map instead of raw links


 * UNR - Historic Official State Highway maps (higher quality than NDOT site)
 * UNR - Historic city/county area maps (higher quality than NDOT site, in ZIP files)
 * NDOT GeoHub


 * NDOT - Annual Traffic Reports


 * Nevada DOT Department history

These are links to internal pages of editing notes/resources:
 * /Legislative definitions
 * /History notes
 * /Post-renumbering history
 * Redirect completion list
 * /National Highway System
 * /Federal aid numbers

Structure of articles
Nevada highway articles follow the layout and conventions outlined in the WikiProject U.S. Roads Article Standards. Please consult that document first, as the guidelines detailed here supplement the USRD standards.

Naming conventions

 * Articles about numbered highways shall follow the appropriate naming conventions established at WP:USSH.
 * Other articles within the scope of this project should use a commonly recognized name, following the guidelines of WP:NAME.

Infobox
Infobox road is the standard template used to create the information box on Nevada roads articles. See the template documentation for full a complete list of parameters and usage instructions.

Below is the basic syntax necessary to generate an infobox with the parameters most commonly used on Nevada articles, along with Nevada-specific parameter notes.

Junction lists
All Nevada road articles about an active numbered highway shall have a junction table created in compliance with MOS:RJL. Tabular road junction lists shall be created using the jctint family of templates, using NVint for each row entry and enclosing the table between jcttop and jctbtm tags. Use of background colors is encouraged (subject to MOS:RJL provisions).

Participation
If you are interested in editing Nevada road articles, add your username and info to the centralized U.S. Roads participants list. (The old Nevada Roads participants list, which can be found here, is being phased out.)

Task force members can show their participation by adding one of these userboxes to their user page.